ThomasForti40

February 2020

Hello ThomasForti40. The nature of your edits gives the impression you have an undisclosed financial stake in promoting a topic, but you have not complied with Wikipedia's mandatory paid editing disclosure requirements. Paid advocacy is a category of conflict of interest (COI) editing that involves being compensated by a person, group, company or organization to use Wikipedia to promote their interests. Undisclosed paid advocacy is prohibited by our policies on neutral point of view and what Wikipedia is not, and is an especially egregious type of COI; the Wikimedia Foundation regards it as a "black hat" practice akin to black-hat SEO.

Paid advocates are very strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists, and if it does not, from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly.

Regardless, if you are receiving or expect to receive compensation for your edits, broadly construed, you are required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post such a mandatory disclosure to your user page at User:ThomasForti40. The template {{Paid}} can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form: {{paid|user=ThomasForti40|employer=InsertName|client=InsertName}}. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. Otherwise, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, do not edit further until you answer this message. ~~ Alex Noble - talk 15:45, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Alex! Thanks for contacting me back. I'm very new to this and I'm not totally sure how the process works. I am not being compensated to build a Wikipedia page for the business, but I am indirectly interested in the business (family members work there). I wanted it to have it's own page.

To ensure no conflicts of interest, is there a request I can put in to have the page built by someone else? I'm not sure if it would be a problem if I built it myself.— Preceding unsigned comment added by ThomasForti40 (talk • contribs)

There is indeed a place you can put in a request to have the article created by someone else. Visit Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies and find the appropriate page (it's broken up by letter, so if you wanted Acme Corp created, you would click on "A", etc.). Keep in mind articles are created by volunteers who tend to create the ones that grab their interest or look easy, so make your request as easy as possible by including sources. Also, when you leave comments on talk pages (like this one or the help desk), please sign your comments by typing four of the little squiggly things, like this ~~~~. ~ ONUnicorn^{(Talk|Contribs)}problem solving 16:06, 27 February 2020 (UTC)